14 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 4

There cannot be many complete sets of The Spectator, which

published its first issue in July, 1828, in private hands. A corre- spondent, writing from as far afield as Kenya, mentions that his great-grandfather, grandfather and father all took in the paper and bound it, and that he himself has followed suit. I must clearly institute a Companionship of the Order of Janus to meet such cases.